I think people who eat special diets often become assholes because they are depriving themselves and not really happy about it, so need to make others feel like crap to make themselves feel better about their poor decision.

There are actually nice vegans, and they truly enjoy it and feel better.

I admit to being a zealot at first. I just wanted everybody else to know how GOOD it feels to not hurt, fart, vurp and poop only once every ten days. Problem is, they don't want to hear it. In a world of bread eaters, medication and pain are just normal and very few ask why.

Some of the most intolerable, nasty, people I've had the misfortune of meeting were PETA vegans. I'd prefer the company of Russian neo nazi's to them....oops - just kind of invoked Godwins law, Shut this thread, it's all over now!

Fear of the unknown...They are afraid of new ideas. they are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on… if something is new, I reject it immediately because it’s frightening to me. What they do instead is just stay with the familiar.

I'd be pretty mean too if I somehow could never again eat bacon. Oh, the horror! But seriously, yeah, I know what you mean. I have a friend who recently turned vegan and lost a bunch of weight. She did so for ethical reason. She's still a sweetheart most of the time, but turns in to Judgy McJudgerson whenever the topic of meat eating comes up. Yeah, she's one of [I]those[I] vegans.